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- Birthday 12/25/1985
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WA
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Christian Orthodoxy, Charlotte Mason, Classical Education
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My kids are 15, 14, 13, 13, 11, 10, 1, and baby. 4 homeschooled, 2 in public/charter, and two babes
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Spokane WA
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Preschool, knitting, Orthodoxy
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SAHM
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How did you all fulfill your health credit? I see Apologia has a program, it looks beefy. Maybe unnecessarily beefy. There's the PACE health, which... I don't like the "people with healthy issues physical or mental are a drain on society" vibe. What else is there?
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Any tips or resources for a gardening unit? I'm looking for high school level and would want to include both reading and practical application (actually planting a garden). I am not a gardener myself.
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Photography/Editing Course
Coco_Clark replied to Coco_Clark's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
I mean that I'm trying to sweeten the pot because she needs a tech credit but has no interest in computers. She's very creative so I think photography editing would appeal. -
I'm suffering from too many options. I'm looking for a photography editing course meaty/technical enough to count as a high school tech credit. There are sooo many options. Ideally it would cover both photography and editing, but the editing part is what she's most interested in. I know photography is generally an art credit but this is a VERY computer averse child so I'm doing what I can.
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I have a 15yo that will finish up Algebra 2 around Dec/Jan of next year (long story short, a bad case of covid put him several months behind in math and we never caught up). I don't want to put him in Pre-Cal because he won't have time to finish it before he does DE at the local community college the next year. I considered a semester of Stats. But after his tests scores I'm realizing a refresher on computation may be a better choice. This kid did amazing on concepts but apparently has forgotten some basic arithmetic (long division, ect). 🙄 Any resources for something like that?
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Dorothy Heyer wrote surprisingly good historical romances, and they are all clean. I enjoy them a lot, as does my 15yo daughter.
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4th time through with 8th grade and feeling like I have a good grip on the jump into high school. Math: Finishing up AOPS Algebra and then hitting one of their smaller side books. Writing: Writing and Rhetoric 8, a daily sentence to diagram, and Sequential Spelling. Plus regular narration and common placing. History/Literature: Story of the Ancients, Story of the Greeks, and Story of the Romans by Miller. Paired with the Iliad, Odyssey, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Plus quite a bit of mythology, some Plutarch and a touch of ancient poetry. Science: Berean Builders Chemistry with his older siblings. Extras: I'm letting this kid quit Latin this year because he hates it with a passion. He's really interested in ASL so trying to figure out if there's a politically correct way to learn that. It's a whole worm can, apparently. He will continue in Homeschool band where he plays trombone. Hiking and ice skating will count as PE.
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10th Grade Planning Thread 2023-2024
Coco_Clark replied to Porridge's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
DS, last year before he starts dual enrolling for most of his school 😞 Math- finish up D.O. Algebra 2 (a bad bout of covid put his math at odds with his school year) then do a semester of statistics or maybe double time it through Mr D consumer math. Programming or Tek lvl 4 with Mytek- will decide after we see the schedule, right now level 4 would mean an 8am class 😬 DD, thankfully not leaving me yet Math- Saxon Algebra 1 Sign Language- still looking for a good class. Maybe Mr. D? BOTH: Writing- finish up the Writing and Rhetoric series with books 11 and 12. Literature/Social Studies- Ancients using the Old Western Culture Greek DVDs. Science- Berean Builders Chemistry -
I have an 8th grader and 10th grader interested in American sign language. We know several families that use it so we would potentially get a lot of practice. I like that Life print looks like it gets you having conversations right away, it's not just a list of vocab. But Im struggling to know how to use it/how to organize lessons with it. Any advice? Im also looking at Mr D, which is much more straight forward as to planned lessons. But will it teach grammar/culture? Or is it just vocab? Has anyone used either program and could give a review?
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I used an exel form in the past but this year (1 year old plus a pregnancy) I've just been doing what's next and honestly? It works just as well. kids range 10-15. My daily line up, for the record, is: Current Events (CNN10) Prayers and hymn (new one each month) Bible (read the next chapter, when we get to the end of a book, pick a new book) Saint Story (saint of the day) Memory Work (group new, individual new taking turns picking things, 1 from weekly review, 2 from long term review) Poetry Reading (same poem for 3 days) and picture study the 4th day Lit reading (chapter a sat, when we get to the end, pick a new book) History Reading (chapter a day)
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Any suggestions for a high school level creative writing course? Half or full credit would both work. Online or self paced. We are coming off of Writing and Rhetoric Thesis and need a bit of an essay break, but I don't want to stop writing all together. She does enjoy writing stories/creative writing in general. Editing to add she's sitting next to me and said a poetry course might even be fun. 🤷
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6th-grade math taking forever every day
Coco_Clark replied to maryode's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
I feel like 6th/7th grade just takes forever. It's a distractible age. If the time isn't killing her I'd just let it be, safe in tht knowledge that she will get over this developmental hump sometime next year 😂 -
Calculator Recommendations
Coco_Clark replied to Coco_Clark's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
This would be for my current high school students, who don't have phones yet. I have ds12 in AOPS Introduction to Algebra (hasn't needed a calc yet, but I assume will soon), ds13 in public school Algebra 1 (teacher recommends one about halfway through the year), dd14 in Saxon Pre-A (won't need one for quite a while I think), and ds14 in Derek Owens Algebra 2 (the current calculator user). I may even end up with two calculators depending how needs fall. -
My 20 year old graphing calculator is finally dead. Big line down the screen. It's a Texas instrument TI 89, and I was just going to buy another just like it. But there's a TI 84 that's in color, and a CAS that's cheaper and says it does more. Now I'm doubting myself. Is there a calculator that just blows the others out of the water?
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Thanks, I'll look into Khan, because outsourcing to something fairly independent sounds great tbh. I used quite a bit of icivics when I did a late elementary/middle school, 1 quarter long, government run through a few years ago. It was quality but a LOT of work on my end to put together.